Nim Community Survey 2019
If you haven't answered it already, here is Nim Community Survey 2019: [https://nim-lang.org/blog/2019/12/20/community-survey-2019.html](https://nim-lang.org/blog/2019/12/20/community-survey-2019.html) We would love to hear your opinions, and it will help us with our 2020 plans.
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We already have more than 600 responses, but if you're not one of them: this is a reminder to give us your feedback. It should take about 5 minutes of your time.
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When's the cut-off?
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> When's the cut-off? >From the linked article: > Submissions will be accepted until around February 2020, depending on the > response rates. .
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**Last call** Nim Community Survey 2019 will close in about 18 hours (Feb 11th, 6am UTC), now is your last chance to participate: [https://nim-lang.org/blog/2019/12/20/community-survey-2019.html](https://nim-lang.org/blog/2019/12/20/community-survey-2019.html)
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The results of Nim Community Survey 2019 are now available at: [https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/02/18/community-survey-results-2019.html](https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/02/18/community-survey-results-2019.html)
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Nice, thank you for the write up!
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Thanks for the writeup! One thing I wanted to mention, is that the pair of "no" answers in "Have you made contributions" was a very weird choice in my opinion: I could either answer "No, but plan to", or "No and never will"; that's weird to me, as I'd like to answer "No, and currently don't plan to"; I definitely don't have strong negative opinion about contributing, I see it as possible I may one day, but I also currently just don't have plans to do that. I was super confused and didn't know which answer to chose, both seemed an equal lie. I don't remember which one I chose in the end, would be confused the same if I were to chose again.
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Kind of an off topic question but doesn’t Option[T] obviate the need of non-nillable types?
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I had the exact same reaction as akavel regarding the "Have you made contributions?“ question. The wording of the last answer was very odd.
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According to the survey, Visual Studio Code is by far the most used editor for nim work. However the VSCode nim plugin is quite out of date. The latest version, 0.6.4 was released in September, before nim 1.0.0 was released. It also does not support (AFAIK) using nimpretty and is missing other features. Do you guys know if there are plans to update the plugin to at least be compatible with the official 1.0 nim release?
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Me too. Is opening an issue a contribution? Is writing a library a contribution? Also I liked to read raw responses as you posted in 2017 survey: [https://nim-lang.org/blog/2017/10/01/community-survey-results-2017.html](https://nim-lang.org/blog/2017/10/01/community-survey-results-2017.html)
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`not nil` enforces compile-time checks which provides stronger guarantees. I'd say it's a first step towards Nim proving formal properties of a language. For example when interfacing with low-level pointer based API, you might want to say return a `ptr T not nil` from malloc (because if it was nil it would have been an OutOfMemory error) and the rest of the program can rely on that property as it's propagated and compile-time check by the compiler.
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oups, guess I'm a bit late; I tried to fill [https://nim-lang.org/blog/2019/12/20/community-survey-2019.html](https://nim-lang.org/blog/2019/12/20/community-survey-2019.html) but it says it's closed; any chance to re-open? otherwise no big deal
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The VS Code plugin is community supported. I do agree that it would be nice to have an official plugin.
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> any chance to re-open? Nope. The survey is over. * * * > One thing I wanted to mention, is that the pair of "no" answers in "Have you > made contributions" was a very weird choice > > (...) > > I had the exact same reaction as akavel regarding the "Have you made > contributions?“ question. > > (...) > > Me too. Is opening an issue a contribution? Is writing a library a > contribution? Thanks for the feedback! We'll try to keep that in mind for the 2020 survey.
